Subtle Bluntness

The electricity is back at my house.  I could not be more pleased.  Actually, I guess it’s been on since late Saturday, but last night was the first night it was on without an outage for the whole night.  This is major progress, especially given that we’re supposed to get more snow Tuesday and Wednesday. [...]

It’s cold and snowing outside.  This is my kind of weather.  There’s a brisk north wind, the snow is practically blowing sideways, and it’s just cold and sharp and definitively winter outside.  It’s days like today I wish I could have my life narrated by The Voice of God himself, John Facenda. Walking in slow [...]

When I left my place of employment today, what did I see fluttering and flying about in the air?  Snow, of course.  It looked like an explosion in a candy factory, and little white clumps of confectioner’s sugar and gel ignite were raining down everywhere. Somehow, I managed to resist the urge to careen through [...]

Well, I stayed home from Day Job Friday, because I felt like a plate of fried turds ‘n’ spray-cheese. Another good reason was the upcoming white apocalypse we were to suffer at the hands of a premenstrual Mother Nature. That’s right, she was playing ragtime music and decided to give us more than the cold [...]

So, for those of you who aren’t in Louisville, which is all of you, there’s been what meteorologists are calling “a metric fuckton” of snow today. It started on my drive home and continues, albeit less forcefully, at this very moment. The projected total is somewhere between 4-8 inches of snow, plus sleet, ice, freezing [...]